Dewey and Elvis : the life and times of a rock 'n' roll deejay /

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Beginning in 1949, while Elvis Presley and Sun Records were still virtually unknown--and two full years before Alan Freed famously "discovered" rock 'n' roll--Dewey Phillips brought rock 'n' roll to the Memphis airwaves by playing Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and Muddy...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cantor, Louis
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Phillips, Dewey.
Presley, Elvis, > 1935-1977.
Disc jockeys > Biography.
Rock music > Tennessee > Memphis > History and criticism.
Popular culture > United States.
Disques-jockeys > Biographies.
Rock (Musique) > Tennessee > Memphis > Histoire et critique.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Rock.
Disc jockeys.
Popular culture.
Rock music.
Tennessee > Memphis.
United States.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Programmed chaos : Dewey Phillips on the air
  • Before the storm : Dewey arrives at the five-and-dime
  • The white brother on Beale Street
  • The new Memphis sound : the birth of black programming
  • "What in the world is that?" Is this guy black or white?
  • Racial cross-pollination : black and white together
  • The great convergence : "pop" tunes' one-stop
  • The Phillips boys : soul (better than blood) brothers
  • "Red, hot, and blue" : the hottest cotton-pickin' thang' in the country
  • Dewey and Elvis : the synthesized sound
  • Dewey introduces Elvis to the world
  • The king and his court jester : men-children in the promised land
  • Red hot at first
  • blue at the very end
  • The final descent : "If Dewey couldn't be number one, he didn't wanna be."
  • "Goodbye, good people"
  • The legacy : the next generation and beyond.

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